Loudon Wainwright III Quotes
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions become necessary, when they aren't camp, that, to me, is magic. I've done musical comedies and enjoyed them, but subject matter that's deeper and more realistic is always what's appealed to me most.
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A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport.
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I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
